Cincinnati --The University of Cincinnati is a solid number
one in Ohio and among the leading Midwest universities in the
latest national rankings for royalties from patents and
technology licenses.

The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
compiles the annual report of royalty rankings and lists UC 34th
in the nation, ahead of other Midwestern schools such as Purdue,
the University of Michigan, and Ohio State.

The AUTM report shows UC with $2.66 million in adjusted gross
royalties for the 1997 fiscal year. Norm Pollack, director of the
office of intellectual property at UC, said the fiscal 1998
figures are even higher $3.27 million or a 23 percent increase
from fiscal '97 to fiscal '98.

The top royalty producers for the 1997 fiscal year were:

Cardiolite&reg and Myoview&reg (two heart-imaging agents)

HeaterMeals (entrees cooked using a flameless heating pad)

Labor & Delivery instructional video disk

PBS: a polymeric barrier system for containing radioactive
waste

These products have been top income-producers for several
years, especially the heart-imaging agents which Pollack calls
"blockbusters." Two newer products which Pollack says could
become significant in future years are a bone cancer drug
marketed by Mallinkrodt and a family of environmentally friendly
anti-corrosion chemicals marketed by Brent International.

In
the meantime, UC faculty and staff continue to develop new
products and technologies that attract widespread interest off
campus.

THE WAPIN BRIDGE: CCM piano technician Michael Wathen and
former physics research associate Richard Harris invented a new
technique for rebuilding pianos which was recently featured on
the cover of the Piano Technicians Journal.

MEASURENET: A computerized sampling and measuring network
invented by faculty and staff in the chemistry department for
UC's first-year labs was recently sold to Walnut Hills High
School for that school's new science building. The system
spawned a start-up company headed by research associate Robert
Voorhees.

ALZHEIMER'S TREATMENT: Apologic, Inc. is a start-up firm
launched by a UC invention. Its primary product is a potential
Alzheimer's disease treatment developed by Keith Crutcher in
neurosurgery.

CELL-IMAGING SOFTWARE: Eric Gruenstein in molecular genetics
has developed software for viewing the internal structures of
cells. The software is being marketed as a component of an
imaging system for biomedical research. The system is sold by
Intracellular Imaging, Inc., a start-up company founded by
Gruenstein.

ROBOTICS SOFTWARE: Engineers Ernie Hall, Ron Huston, and
Richard Shell developed robotics software which was licensed to
Motoman, a robotics manufacturer in the Dayton, Ohio area.

Pollack says those products will become more important to
royalty income once the blockbuster patents expire in 2002. "You
can never predict the future, but by putting a lot of horses in
the race, we are increasing our odds of seeing more big winners
in the years ahead," said Pollack.